The Mastery of Nature: Aspects of Art, Science, and Humanism in the Renaissance

by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann

Responding to ongoing debates over the role of humanism in the rise of empirical science, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann explores the history of Renaissance art to help explain the complex beginnings of the scientific revolution. In a rich collection of new and previously published essays addressing conceptions of the mastery of nature, he discusses the depiction of nature in works of art, scientific approaches to understanding the world, and imperial...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069103205X
• ISBN13: 9780691032054
• Release Date: February 1993
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.